Organization

Set designer

Charles Davis

Lighting designer

Trent Suidgeest

Singer

Soprano

Catherine Carby

Médée

Chloe Lankshear

Nérine

Tenor

Michael Petruccelli

Jason

Bass-baritone

Andrew Finden

Oronte

Cathy-Di Zhang

Créuse

Stage director

Justin Way

Conductor

Erin Helyard

Choreographer

Troy Honeysett

Adrian Tamburini

Créon

Pinchgut Opera

Others

Cantillation Chorus

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Antipodes

French

Médée -  (Medea)

Sydney City

Australia

City Recital Hall

Médée Charpentier,M

Public

Medea

English

Approved

Médée by Charpentier opens at City Recital Hall, Sydney on 1 December 2022. Celebrate the end of the year with Pinchgut, and grand opera at its finest with t...

The greatest opera of the entire French Baroque era.
Originally scheduled in Pinchgut Opera’s 2020 season, the greatest opera of the French Baroque era finally takes the stage in 2022. Médée is high drama and emotion: French tragédie lyrique in its most classic form. The sorceress Médée is driven by desperation and the abandonment of her lover Jason to do the unthinkable, and ultimately murder her own children.

Charpentier’s sensual lyricism and dramatic insight take us deep inside the mind and heart of this powerful and damaged woman who refuses to be a victim – even at the cost of her own flesh and blood.

Returning to Pinchgut after her star turn in The Return of Ulysses, mezzo-soprano Catherine Carby takes on the role of the tortured Médée, with the brilliant Michael Petruccelli, who was thrilling in 2019’s Farnace, as her lover Jason. Cathy-Di Zhang, Andrew Finden and Adrian Tamburini are joined by Cantillation and the inimitable Orchestra of the Antipodes to tell this passionate and unforgettable story.

In the brilliant hands of Artistic Director Erin Helyard, Médée’s legendary story will finally be brought to the stage for the first time in Australia, with all the sophistication, eloquence and power of the French Baroque era.

Medea by Charpentier, M., From (2022/2022), Directed by Justin Way,, Conductor Erin Helyard, City Recital Hall, Sydney City, Australia

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